2023 Shriners Children’s Open: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds

Tom Kim is favoured to win on the PGA Tour golf odds, but easily the top storyline is about a player who won’t win: American Lexi Thompson.

This event has been around in some form since 1983 and was 90 holes for a while. No PGA Tour event is scheduled for more than 72 rounds nowadays, although players in the WGC-Match Play event can play more than 72 holes if they advance deep in the bracket.

Las Vegas is all about entertainment, so it makes a lot of sense that Thompson, a LPGA star, will tee it up on a sponsor exemption. Since joining the LPGA in 2012, Thompson has 11 victories and became the youngest winner of an LPGA tournament when she took the Navistar LPGA Classic at age 16 in 2011. At age 12 in 2007, she became the youngest player ever to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open. Thompson is currently ranked No. 25 in the world among the ladies. In her most recent LPGA outing, she finished T8 at the Arkansas Championship.

“I’m hopeful that my ability to play with the men at the Shriners Children’s Open sends a great message to the young women that you can chase your dream regardless of how hard it is,” Thompson said in a statement. “I’m grateful to Shriners Children’s for this opportunity to spend the week alongside these inspirational kids.”

Her brothers, Nicholas and Curtis Thompson, have both held PGA Tour status. Lexi Thompson (+100000 to win) will be the seventh woman to ever play on the PGA Tour and first since Brittany Lincicome at the 2018 Barbasol Championship. Newly retired Michelle Wie West played eight PGA Tour events throughout her career.

TPC Summerlin, which is at 2,700 feet above sea level in the Mojave Desert, is an easy par 71 at 7,255 yards. Barring some weather, it likely will take at least 20 under par to win as 11 of the past 13 Tour events there have needed at least that score.

South Koreans have won the past two trips here and both shot 24-under 260. It was Sungjae Im in 2021, and last year Tom Kim finished three ahead of Patrick Cantlay and Matthew NeSmith. Kim shot a final-round 5-under 67 and didn’t have a single bogey all week to become became the first player since Tiger Woods in 1996 to win twice on the PGA Tour before turning 21 – Kim has since turned 21 and hasn’t won since but has contended a few times and was runner-up at the 2023 British Open.

Cantlay was tied with Kim on the 72nd hole, but Cantlay imploded with a triple bogey. We did recommend him for a Top 10 so that cashed.

Shriners Children’s Open Golf Odds

A total of five players who qualified for this year’s Tour Championship will play in Vegas: Defending champion Tom Kim, Si Woo Kim, Adam Schenk, Emiliano Grillo and Canadian Nick Taylor.

This will be the first time Kim defends a title on the PGA Tour, and he’s the +1100 favourite. He won the Wyndham Championship in 2022 before winning here but wasn’t able to defend that tournament in North Carolina earlier this year due to injury. At No. 16 in the world, Kim is easily the highest-ranked player in the field.

Young European Ryder Cup star Ludvig Aberg is +1200 with Cam Davis +2000 and Si Woo Kim +2500. Aberg was part of a five-way playoff Sunday at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi won by Luke List, who is +4500 this week. Aberg also won on the DP World Tour in early September. Davis hasn’t missed the cut in four trips here but not contended. Si Woo Kim has an average round of 67.72 in his past 18 at TPC Summerlin.

No Canadian has won this tournament. Adam Hadwin was the top finisher last year at T10. Taylor Pendrith was T24 and Adam Svensson T69. Michael Gligic and Nick Taylor missed the cut. Hadwin is +4000 this week with Svensson +4500, Taylor +6600, Pendrith +6600 and Gligic +50000.

Shriners Children’s Open Golf Predictions

We like American Tom Hoge at +3300 for his second career win. He was T13 on Sunday in Mississippi and has improved here each of the past two years with a T4 in 2022.